Gritty Entrepreneurs
October 23rd, 2008Readwriteweb.com started a series that fits the economic hard times called Gritty Entrepreneurs. These are companies that make money the old fasioned way, no not the 90s way of burning through VC cash, but as John Housman once said “They Earn It”. You remember those ideas where VC cash might not be necessary if you had a business model. Contrast the Gritty Entrepreneurs with the profiles on fuckedstarup.com who are failing or cutting their workforce.
Checkout the recent profile of http://www.socialcast.com/ on readwriteweb.com
Why Start a Starup in a Bad Economy
October 16th, 2008Anytime is a good time to start a startup really. It is only up to your ideas and how you run the business. Cash is king no matter what and a startup needs to learn to manage cash flow and be prudent. Tech startup costs are cheap and could get cheaper. Usually tech related businesses help people streamline costs and do things better, which is what people look for during hard times.
Use browser history to estimate gender
July 30th, 2008The simple use of visited links and javascript can help you find out the browsing history of your users. Taken further you can extrapolate the gender of the user based on each sites gender ration.
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
I tested it and it determined that I was 98% likely a male. Right on.
New IE6 PNG Fix
July 28th, 2008While we still have to deal with the IE6 PNG problems, there is a new fix for tooltips at StylizedWeb
Pushup the Web
July 28th, 2008Help get rid of old outdated browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 (ugh). Most current IE6 users won’t upgrade because they simply don’t know how. Others are stuck in corporate wasteland with locked machines where upgrading is impossible.
Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users update their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience today by installing Pushup on your domain!
